Dwight Rich School of the Arts

Dwight Rich School of the Arts, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in LANSING, Michigan, operated by Lansing Public School District, teaches 562 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 52% bigger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Dwight Rich School of the Arts is one of 26 schools operated by Lansing Public School District, a district that caters to 10,048 students overall.

On demographics, Dwight Rich School of the Arts logs that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 17% White, 15% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Dwight Rich School of the Arts qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Ingham County's rate of about 49%.

Around the school, census data for Ingham County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,526 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ingham County runs 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,914 students), of which Dwight Rich School of the Arts is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cole Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dwight Rich School of the Arts.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dwight Rich School of the Arts has ticked up 77%, going from 318 students in 2018 to 562 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 56% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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